Pedro Martínez:

MadMonkey: Better prepare. May I have your monkey script collection? :)

That is just a measure of the confidence the seller has in his product. He's he says that there's a 219:450 chance that his product will go bust before the period is over :)

Bernice: No answers, but a lot of questions. Welcome to yahoo, google, or any other mail provider who's actually answering questions.

Bernice: when in doubt, google

So far no luck. entering 0x8ccc0003 into the search, I get a zillion hits, but all of then questions which is just a consolation since it seems you're not alone with the problem.

MadMonkey: I must put a rare word in defence of MS. While I'm no fan (understatement) at least they're not too far behind in repairing security holes. Theirs always get huge publicity, but the truth is any system and any software has those holes. This is currently unavoidable. Probably future systems will be smarter, currently all we can do is plug the holes as they're discovered. I'm on a Linux distribution, and I constantly get updates to correct newly discovered potential threats.

Snoopy: You say you have pop-ups disabled, but check if someone didn't define exceptions.
It's under options->contents, you have the checkbox for "block pop-ups", and on the same line a button "exceptions", where you can define which sites are allowed pop-ups. I remember there was a malware that filled that "exceptions" part with loads of sites. So even if you get rid of the malware, the exceptions are still there.

Just kidding. I'm not the person to ask, I use exclusively free stuff.

Czuch: The ashtray is full. Change the car.

awesome: in most browsers f5 will reload the page, and with the control key will also reload all the stuff memorized in cache such as images.

MadMonkey:
One soft to rule them all, One soft to find them
One soft to bring them in and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Windows where the shadows lie.

Go linux, young man, go linux!

wetware: I was just kidding. I was about to suggest that a good test would be to download a virus from the web, try to run it and see if the antivirus screams. But I wouldn't want people to actually try that

Gouwe gozer: Hmmm
Come to think of it, an anti virus that does absolutely nothing would also feel perfectly OK
How sure are we that the Avast is really doing something?

MadMonkey: You interest me. You said your yahoo mail goes into the bird? I thought using mail clients with yahoo is a paid service?

MadMonkey: I'm not sure I like that.
One of the main reproaches against MS is that they always try to build "the program of everything", which looks fine as an idea, until you realise that:
- it is impossible to have only the parts you want, you get (and will have to use) everything or nothing.
- if one thing doesn't work (and which program is bugfree?) nothing does.
And Mozilla, apparently, is following the same glorious path. What could possibly be the advantage of combining those two distinct functions (browsing and email management) in a single program?

As for thunderbird, I myself have practically no more use for it, with webmail servers such as yahoo or google offering unlimited space and fast access. I use it almost exclusively to browse newsgroups.

MadMonkey: I've been working with Unix on and off for almost 30 years professionally. I had first installed a pure Debian at home in the early 2000, but became a bit dissatisfied with the slow update of the versions. Ubuntu updates the whole lot of its distribution twice a year, and so far I've been very satisfied with it.

As a pro, I like the fact that when there is something that doesn't work as I like, I can relatively easily do something about it. With windows, forget it. just reboot, reinstall, curse...

For a simple user, The linux distributions in general have now become very easy to install and use. There are now free alternatives to most of what Microsoft has to offer, which in general work better than the originals.

There are downsides, of course. Many software makers produce only for windows, so if you need a particular software, you may need windows after all. I personally don't, the few things that I use work fine with the windows emulator inside linux.

MadMonkey: I've been using ubuntu the last 2 years.

diogenysos: Maybe the browser had problems recovering the connection data? verify the settings in the "version that works" against "the version that doesn't"
it's all in Preferences->Advanced->Network->Settings

In several spots in brainking, FF 3.5 is taking 2-5 seconds at full CPU to react. One example is a DB: to load or refresh.

I don't recall it having done that on 3.0.x.
Has anyone else seen this? I may be a special case since I run on linux.

pauloaguia: hmm, according to the same site, www.microsoft.com is worth $5,637,900. Fencer, you're worth about 40% of Microsoft! retire and move to Tahiti!

(V): Good luck to you against MS. As for me, I don't use their operating system because I estimate it expensive and vastly inferior to the free linux. Again, my estimate, my decision, and 90% of the computer owners don't think as I do. To each his own.

(V): '"windows" is not a Microsoft idea' : Windows is a valid MS product unless a court decides otherwise. The fact that the Mac OS was there before is immaterial, since Apple did not act on it. If there was a copyright infringement we would heve heard about it a long time ago.

'the customer has to buy a windows disk' : Well no, not in France, anyway. If you buy at a second hand shop a PC without a disc you can easily buy a new clean disc and install on it whatever you like: A MS product (Windows, presumably) which you can buy at a store for a certain amount of $$; or easily find a free, perfectly legal non-MS operating system, which you may or may not know how to operate. The third option, which is slightly illegal, is to install an unpayed MS product - at your own risk.

I'm not a big fan of MS products, but in this disputes my vote goes straight to Redmond. The EC stand, just as the US limitations are totally groundless and stupid at that. The reasons provided are just as silly as not permitting car manufacturers to install their own brand of radio, or come to that wheels, in the car they produce. The definition of a product is purely the decision of the manufacturer, not of the state. If MS decides that their product includes a browser then it's their decision, no one else's. No one is forced to buy a MS product. I don't, for one.

The fact that it is almost impossible, in most countries, to buy a comuter without Windows pre-installed is not a valid counter-argument. At most, this should be thrown at the computer manufacturers, but I would oppose that too, and on the same grounds. It's the manufacturer's decision what to include or not include in a product they sell. If a sufficient number of consumers becomes unhappy with the forced link there will be someone to bring into the market a computer without a pre-installed Windows.

MadMonkey: Linux, on the other hand is a lot poorer: You don't need specific instructions as to how to remove this or install that or what you may, or may not use. I really pity us, I miss so much the Redmond touch

And if they're too old to be sold, they still can be used as a nice addition to a Christmas tree decoration

Too bad it's only February, though

SMART ALX: Check also your current supply. I had this happen once, I thought the central unit is out for sure, but it turned out simply to be a badly plugged cable. The monitor would react to a low current, but the box won't.

tell your admin he's an idiot :)
or better, don't tell him anything and install firefox without admin rights (not needed, you can install it to any directory without special rights)

TheLamer: Thanks for the link! I spent about 10 minutes ROFLing. I wonder how many of the posters were serious.

and better touch some wood too to ward off the gremlins

Arctic Warrior: try the off/on routine:
uncheck animation
save settings, quit browser
start browser, check animations
well?

for firefox, I don't see either where it is accessible from the menu. You can change it by editing your prefs.js file. the key is:

// Image animation mode: normal, once, none.
// This pref now has UI under Privacy & Security->Images.
user_pref("image.animation_mode", "normal");

there's a lot of info in http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

(I use Linux, but I think it's the same for windows)

Arctic Warrior: have a look at playBunny's remark. it can also be that your firefox browser uses the same setting (regkey) to set gif animation that IE uses. so the setting can be inherited, even if you don't use IE.

you can try also a non-browser program that shows animated gifs, there's a load of free ones on download.com and others. that's just to check if your pb is somehow browser related or something else.

Backoff: the good thing about version 1.5 is that now you won't have to. This version has automatic upgrade integrated in it.

Fencer: same here: when I look at what IE selected, it's UTF-8. same as for firefox. the characters look right. my version displays: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519. maybe w wrong UTF-8 version, or one that doesn't have all it needs?

Fencer: have you tried to manually force the issue by using the submenu "character coding"?

JamesHird: F1 is almost universally used for "help", it's probably hardcoded in Firefox. use some other keys

bumble: as Summertop said, legally no. in fact, technically it's "no" too. you can't just take a windows partition disc, transfer it to a new hardware and expect it to work. you must install it from a CD for it to work. this is true even if the rest of the hardware (excepting the disc you transfer) is 100% identical. the reason is that windows is looking for IDs on stuff on your motherboard, stores and uses the info. you'd run into a lot of problems with MS software if you don't install things "properly".

In fact, technically Microsoft is fully ready to be able to monitor exactly who is using what software, legal or not, but can't impose it for several reasons. one, such monitoring would be illegal in most countries; second, it would give a huge push to use the cometing free Linux OS.

debian.

do the following:
1) go to >http://mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx

2) chose start point: country: Norway, city: haugesund
3) chose end point: country: Norway, city: trondheim
4) click "get directions"
5) sit back and admire...

Hrqls: loud cheers

wow.
question: does anyone know where Firefox puts his cookies?
I ask, because I think they only go into a single file, Index.dat in the cookies folder. that's fine by me, but my problem is that as far as I can see, no spykiller program knows how to find spycookies there. does anyone have the info?

yes, under your bk2.0. under the old system, with more lax security, it would have worked.

Fencer: I was thinking more about your games to move, this is just ideal for dynamic bookmarks. the problem is that with your current system you have to be logged in to access it.
consider: with one click on 'open in tabs' you'd have immediate access to all your current games.

more: the tabbed views can be stored as a single subentry in your bookmarks: when you have opened all the tabs you want, click "bookmark this page" and activate "bookmark all tabs in a folder". to load, go to the folder and click "open in tabs".

you can also make your start page a group of tabs.

apart from being faster, smaller and less bugged, you mean?

you have, for example, tabbed browsing: instead of opening a window for each separate site, with firefox you can open links in a new tab (click right, open in a new tab). this means that all your browser windows are accessible as a single windows window, switching is much faster between views.

in firefox you have an inbuild popup ad preventer, no need to install anything.

in the browser there is a prepared google search place, no need to go to the google page.

in firefox you have an interresting new feature. some sites (more and more) are using something called RSS. try, for example, http://news.bbc.co.uk/ . in the lower right corner of the screen you'll see 'RSS'. click on it, and subscribe. this gives you a variable folder in your bookmarks, that updates itself whenever there's something new on the server.

FENCER, WINK WINK, when will BK be on RSS? WINK WINK

and a lot more, I'm still discovering too.

cost: zero cents.

go for the firefox, and never look back.

try http://www.freeroms.com/, but many links no longer work
I found some stuff on the following sites (most in french, because that's where I surf):
http://www.emulation64.net/ (follow the forums and the links)
http://rpg-legends.com/nintendo_64.php
h
ttp://rom-n64.gratuit-free.com/
http://www.n6
4emu.net/

and, I suppose, about a zillion other sites :)

if you have a fast connect, such as T1, cache is more of a nuissance than a help. you can try to disable it completely, or at least set it to clear at end of session.

on second thought, maybe clearing the cache might do it

reinstall windows.